Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama The Actor. The album features the film’s original music composed by Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) (The Iron Claw, Eileen, The Nest). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 28 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. The Actor is co-written and directed by Duke Johnson and stars André Holland, Gemma Chan, Tracey Ullman, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney and Joe Cole. The movie based on the novel Memory by Donald E. Westlake follows a man who gets stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here and – without a sense of identity or purpose – starts from scratch and begins courting a local costume designer.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 14, 2025)
Opening in theaters nationwide is the action comedy Novocaine directed by Dan Berk & Robert Olsen and starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Matt Walsh, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, Lou Beatty Jr., Conrad Kemp and Van Hengst. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible: Fallout, Black Widow, Black Adam, The Wheel of Time, His Dark Materials, Top Gun: Maverick) & Andrew Kawczynski (Gran Turismo, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Corrupted). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening in theaters nationwide is the spy drama Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Pierce Brosnan, Regé-Jean Page, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Marisa Abela. David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, Haywire, No Sudden Move, Hunger, Analyze That, Marlowe) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details for more information about the movie, which is being released by Focus Features.
Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry Scoring Duke Johnson’s ‘The Actor’
Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) (The Iron Claw, Eileen, The Nest) has recently been scoring the upcoming drama The Actor. The film is directed by Duke Johnson (Anamolisa) and stars André Holland, Gemma Chan, Tracey Ullman, Simon McBurney, Toby Jones and Joe Cole. The movie is based on the bestselling novel Memory by Donald E. Westlake and tells the story of an actor who finds himself stranded in 1950s Ohio, suffering from severe memory loss after a brutal attack and struggling to find his way back to his life in New York.